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A grandmother was denied entry to a local council swimming pool for wanting to swim in a singlet and shorts, raising the question of whether it is inappropriate for councils to stipulate what a person chooses to wear....

Major Korean lenders join banks in Australia, China and the UK in refusing to fund Adani's contentious Carmichael coal project, just months after the miner was reportedly in talks with Seoul companies....

Ravenswood may not quite be a ghost town, but every year its population of 300 more than doubles for entirely ghoulish reasons. Far from being "some crass Americanism", however, the tradition dates back to the gold rush....

The Queensland Government launches legal action against Indian mining giant Adani, alleging one of its companies released water near the Great Barrier Reef with eight times more sediment than it was licensed to....

Documents Adani fought to keep secret appear to show both the company and the Queensland Government knew it was likely to breach its licence before it spilled polluted water into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park....

Protesters who shut down part of Adani's north Queensland coal port have questioned why they were collectively fined almost $80,000 more than six times what the mining company faces for dumping coal-polluted water....

An internal investigation by the Environment Department found Indian mining giant Adani "may have been negligent" in failing to disclose its Australian CEO's links to a company convicted of environmental offences in Africa....